OBEY THE TALLEST

«Dahl's books regularly show up on the American
Library Association's
list of titles that patrons ask to be restricted from young children
or removed from the shelves. In 1995, a mother attempting to expunge
Dahl from elementary-school libraries in Virginia told the Washington
Post that in his books "children misbehave and take retribution
on adults, and there's never, ever a consequence for their
actions." According to this surprisingly common critique of Dahl,
to defy one adult--no matter how bad a person--is to defy us
all.»